Butcher | Mean of butcher in English Dictionary

/ˈbʊtʃɚ/

• Noun
• someone who cuts and sells meat in a shop
• someone who kills animals and prepares their meat to be eaten
• a shop that sells meat
1. The town was small but had a grocery store and a butcher (store/shop).

• someone who kills a lot of people or animals in a brutal or cruel way
1. They are a bunch of butchers [=murderers] who gained power by slaughtering their enemies.
• someone who does something very roughly and badly
1. That surgeon is a butcher! [=a terrible surgeon]
• to look at something
1. This may be what we need. Have a butcher's.
• Verb
• to kill (an animal) and prepare its meat for sale
1. They've hired someone to butcher the hogs.
• to kill (people or animals) in a brutal and cruel way
1. Many innocent people were butchered under his regime.
• to do (something) very badly
1. The band has butchered my favorite song.